The band Billy Hart assembled for this fine session is remarkable: John Stubblefield on tenor and soprano saxes, Mark Feldman on violin, David Kikoski on piano, David Fiuczynski on guitar, and Santi Debriano on bass. Marc Copland, who produced the album, plays keyboards on tracks five and six. Unorthodox textures abound, thanks to the fruitful juxtaposition of Feldman's mournful violin, Fiuczynski's overdriven yet lyrical guitar, and Stubblefield's soaring saxes. Hart employs these three melody voices in various combinations, keeping the sound consistently fresh. The tracks do sound somewhat similar, however, tending toward open harmonic structures held together loosely by swing and Latin grooves. Each bandmember contributes one tune, save for Hart, who contributes two. Fiuczynski's "Melanos" is the most unpredictable piece, with its screaming guitar solo and its Jeckyl-and-Hyde transitions between abstraction, cheery Latin, and uptempo swing. Feldman's "Asylum" is also a good deal more unusual than the rest. Of Hart's compositions, "Amethyst" falls roughly within the enigmatic, ethereal universe of his old band Quest with David Liebman and Richard Beirach, while "Irah" is painted in bolder strokes, with powerful solos by Feldman and Fiuczynski. The album ends with an interesting version of Kikoski's "Dirty Dogs," which graced the pianist's 1989 album Presage. In short, there's plenty of beautiful music on the album, plenty of representative brilliance from all these fine players, and even a substantial amount of originality and vision. ~ David R. Adler, All Music Guide
John Siket (Assistant Engineer), Marvin M. Reiss (Executive Producer), John Stubblefield (Sax (Soprano)), Mark Feldman (Violin), Allan Tucker (Mastering), Franko Caligiuri (Design), Dave Kikoski (Piano), Joel Chriss (?), Elizabeth Sauthoff (Production Assistant), Marc Copland (Keyboards), Daniel Chriss (Production Director), Santi Debriano (Bass), Franko Caligiuri (Art Direction), Joel Chriss (Consultant), Marc Copland (Producer), Jodi Howard (Associate Producer), John Stubblefield (Sax (Tenor)), Elizabeth Sauthoff (Assistant Producer), Billy Hart (Drums), Lona Foote (Photography), Joel Chriss (Repertoire Consultant), Jim Anderson (Engineer), Joel Chriss (Art Direction), David Fiuczynski (Guitar)
Shizuru Fujino#Shizuru in My-Otome, fictional character from the anime and manga series My-Otome, whose GEM is known as the Beguiling Amethyst
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